Victorieplein 9

Previously Daniel Willinkplein 9.
Sophia Ernst Levij, born July 8, 1852 in Goersdorf, near Woerth, Bas-Rhin Alsace ten N. van Strasbourg. Married Sept. 21. 1875 with Frederic Joseph Ernst, in Paris; Then she was, according to the wedding act, "Sans Profession". How and when they came to the Netherlands is unknown. Her husband, who worked in an office, died in 1929. They had two daughters: Rebecca, who probably already died in 1939 and Irma, the wife of the non-Jewish doctor Jan van Konijnenburg and mother of Martha and her brother Cornelis Jan Ernst .
Her last home address was the Jewish Pension Cohen, at Daniel Willinkplein 9/i. We do not know whether the Van Konijnenburg family, who lived in Haarlem for a long time but returned to Amsterdam in 1936 (first in Tesselschadestraat, later in Euterpestraat [now Gerrit van der Veewnstraat 76/I] suggested her to live here. She lived with four other Jewish residents; Already two weeks later in Auschwitz. Steps have no goal, "says Westerbork's registration card Two days later, her death was officially confirmed in the population register in July 1951.
We think with respect of this Jewish life. We know very little about her existence, but it can't be otherwise, or her daughter, son -in -law and grandchildren, who did not live far from her in the Euterpestraat, had an intimate contact with her. That may have been a comfort despite all the horrors of her last years of life.

A short poem, writ by Inez Meter (1925-2022), first city poet of Gouda and honorary citizen of that city:

Godlof

Their names are saved
turn back in town
where they lived

the removed

In the street where their house is standing
In the sidewalk where their footstep lies
will their lives and
After the road too
their-not-lake life
be readable

Readable for everyone
who will stand still there
will be silent

In their names they return.

Hier erinnert

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